The administration has expressed concern but has refused to even to entertain questions about what the consequences would be if allegations turn out to be true - that the 59-year-old journalist was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after entering it on October 2 to get routine paperwork for his marriage while his Turkish fiancee waited outside.

Pence was asked on the Hugh Hewitt syndicated radio program if Washington would send FBI investigators to Turkey if Saudi Arabia requested it.

The Saudis were discussing a plan to lure Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, back to the kingdom, the newspaper claims, citing a person familiar with the communications, which were intercepted before he vanished. It was not clear whether the Saudis meant to arrest and interrogate Khashoggi or to kill him, or if the United States warned Khashoggi that he was a target, this person said. The video suggests that Khashoggi was in the vehicle at the time. It's a very serious situation for us and for this White House ...

The individuals checked in to two hotels close to the consulate, the daily said.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee.

So far, no one has produced any footage allegedly showing Khashoggi leaving the consulate. I received an answer that further fuelled my fears: Jamal had already left, they told me, possibly without my noticing. "I've never heard of an embassy in my life that doesn't tape". "But I don't want to rush to judgment".

The journalist was known as a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's increasingly authoritarian posture toward dissent in the Kingdom.

A total of 25 to 30 professional and non-professional journalists are now believed to be detained in Saudi Arabia, which is ranked 169th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2018 World Press Freedom Index, the organisation also said.

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